Material Processing

Material Processing

Instructor: Thomas H. Sanders, Jr.

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Have you ever wondered why ceramics are hard and brittle while metals tend to be ductile? Why some materials conduct heat or electricity while others are insulators? Why adding just a small amount of carbon to iron results in an alloy that is so much stronger than the base metal? In this course, you will learn how a material’s properties are determined by the microstructure of the material, which is in turn determined by composition and the processing that the material has undergone.

This is the second of three Coursera courses that mirror the Introduction to Materials Science class that is taken by most engineering undergrads at Georgia Tech. The aim of the course is to help students better understand the engineering materials that are used in the world around them. This first section covers the fundamentals of materials science including atomic structure and bonding, crystal structure, atomic and microscopic defects, and noncrystalline materials such as glasses, rubbers, and polymers.

This course picks up with an overview of basic thermodynamics and kinetics as they pertain to the processing of crystalline materials. The first module deals with phase diagrams - charts that tell us how a material will behave given a certain set of variables such as temperature, pressure, and composition. You will learn how to interpret common and complex phase diagrams and how to extract useful information from them.

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25 videos5 readings4 assignments

25 videos Total 180 minutes

1.1 Introduction 1 minute
1.2 One-Component Phase Diagrams and Gibbs Phase Rule 11 minutes
1.3 Regions of Two Phase Equilibrium 9 minutes
1.4 Additional One-Component Phase Diagrams 3 minutes
1.5 Binary Isomorphous Phase Diagrams 9 minutes
1.6 The Lever Rule 9 minutes
1.7 Phase Fractions 6 minutes
1.8 Equilibrium Cooling Curves 8 minutes
1.9 Equilibrium Isomorphous Diagrams 6 minutes
1.10 Analysis of a Phase Diagram 5 minutes
1.11 Deviations from Ideal Behavior 11 minutes
1.12 Eutectic Phase Diagram 10 minutes
1.13 Determination of Phase Boundaries 8 minutes
1.14 Eutectic Microstructure Development 8 minutes
1.15 Equilibrium Cooling of an Off-Eutectic Alloy 7 minutes
1.16 Equilibrium Cooling of an Off-Eutectic Alloy - Calculations 6 minutes
1.17 Microstructure Development in an Off-Eutectic Alloy 6 minutes
1.18 Invariant Reactions in Two Component Systems 7 minutes
1.19 Peritectic Phase Diagrams 10 minutes
1.20 Analysis of Complex Phase Diagrams 13 minutes
1.21 Monotectic Phase Diagrams 6 minutes
1.22 Phase Separation and Critical Points 6 minutes
1.23 Solid State Reactions 11 minutes
1.24 Summary of Invariant Reactions in Two-Component Systems 2 minutes
1.25 Summary 2 minutes

5 readings Total 50 minutes

Learning Outcomes 10 minutes
Consent Form 10 minutes
Get More from Georgia Tech 10 minutes
Supplemental Materials for this Module 10 minutes
Earn a Georgia Tech Badge and CEUs 10 minutes

4 assignments Total 110 minutes

Quiz 1.1 (Lessons 1.1 - 1.8) 20 minutes
Quiz 1.2 (Lessons 1.9 - 1.12) 30 minutes
Quiz 1.3 (Lessons 1.13 - 1.17) 30 minutes
Quiz 1.4 (Lessons 1.18 - 1.24) 30 minutes

If thermodynamics, which we covered in the previous module, tells us how a material wants to change, then kinetics tells us how and how quickly that transformation occurs. This module starts by explaining the driving force for phase transformations. We will cover the nucleation and growth of precipitates, solidification, and sintering. Finally, there are a number of lessons which apply all that has been covered in the course to understanding carbon steels.

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33 videos3 readings3 assignments

33 videos Total 226 minutes

2.1 Introduction 6 minutes
2.2 The Concept of a Driving Force 7 minutes
2.3 Homogeneous Nucleation 6 minutes
2.4 Undercooling and the Barrier to Homogeneous Nucleation 4 minutes
2.5 Random Clusters in the Liquid 8 minutes
2.6 Nucleation and Growth 9 minutes
2.7 Wetting 6 minutes
2.8 Heterogeneous Nucleation 6 minutes
2.9 Heterogeneous Nucleation - Spherical Cap Approximation 8 minutes
2.10 Heterogeneous Nucleation - Sodium Acetate Demonstration 3 minutes
2.11 Heterogeneous Nucleation - Applications 4 minutes
2.12 Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Nucleation 7 minutes
2.13 Types of Interfaces 12 minutes
2.14 Johnson, Mehl, and Avrami (JMA) Equation 8 minutes
2.15A Calculations Using the JMA Equation Part 1 4 minutes
2.15B Calculations Using the JMA Equation Part 2 5 minutes
2.16 Application of the JMA Equation 8 minutes
2.17 Developing High Strength Alloys 7 minutes
2.18 The Iron-Carbon System 8 minutes
2.19 Diffusional/DiffusionlessTransformations 6 minutes
2.20 Heat Treating a Plain Carbon Eutectoid Steel 3 minutes
2.21 Formation of Pearlite in Eutectoid Steel 9 minutes
2.22 Formation of Bainite in a Eutectoid Steel 5 minutes
2.23 Formation of Martensite 10 minutes
2.24 Heat Treatments of Austenite Decomposition Products 2 minutes
2.25 Isothermal Transformation (IT) Diagrams for a Eutectoid Steel 7 minutes
2.26 Off-Eutectoid Isothermal Transformation (IT) Diagrams 7 minutes
2.27 4340 Isothermal Transformation (IT) Diagram 5 minutes
2.28 Continuous Transformation (CCT) Diagrams 13 minutes
2.29 Precipitation Hardening in Al-Cu Alloys 10 minutes
2.30 Nonequilibrium Solidification 13 minutes
2.31 Sintering 8 minutes
2.32 Summary 4 minutes

3 readings Total 30 minutes

Learning outcomes 10 minutes
Supplemental Materials for this Module 10 minutes
Where to go from here 10 minutes

3 assignments Total 90 minutes

Quiz 2.1 (Lessons 2.1 - 2.5) 30 minutes
Quiz 2.2 (Lessons 2.6 - 2.10) 30 minutes
Quiz 2.3 (Lessons 2.11 - 2.15) 30 minutes

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Reviewed on Dec 1, 2020

You are awesome about the material process and metallurgy. I am expecting from you to develop lots of material issues. Thanks for evertything.

Reviewed on Apr 11, 2020

I Great thank to Professor Thomas H. Sanders, Jr. for providing valuable information . I joyed a lot on Material Processing course and i learnt new information.

Reviewed on Aug 30, 2023

I would like thanks to Georgia Institute of Technology, specially Professor Thomas H. Sanders Jr. and Coursera to providing a skill enhance platform and opportunities.

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